I have had singular luck with my editors, although that too was an odyssey. Shaye Arehardt quite literally called this book into being. When I came to Putnam, it was under the guidance of the great Amy Einhorn, then Liz Stein steered the ship. I thank them all. My fourth editor, Tara Singh Carlson, has been a startling reminder why we don’t, in fact, give up five minutes before the miracle. It is because someone like Tara might actually just show up.
The edgy intelligence of Theodore Blumberg, lawyer and literary adviser, stands, as always, behind me. Marisa Smith likewise stands behind me in so many ways I can’t even figure them all out. John Weidman consistently refuses to let me throw my brain out the window. Eric Holmes lived through so much of the murky background of this book, his DNA is everywhere in it. It is a privilege to know them all, and I cannot live without any of them.
I thank Louise Krakower for her insights into the Navajo language. I thank my parents for raising me well. I thank my many siblings for their idiosyncrasies and their tribal wit. I thank my husband, Jess Lynn, my son, Cooper Lynn, and my daughter, Cleo Lynn, for being my family. Living with a writer is a peculiar task. They never fail at it.
In 2011, Theresa Rebeck was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She has had more than a dozen plays produced in New York, including Omnium Gatherum (co-writer), for which she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the New York Times has referred to Rebeck as “one of her generation’s major talents.” She was the creator of the NBC drama Smash and has a long history of producing and writing for major television and film successes. She is the author of Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms with a View. She has taught at Brandeis and Columbia and lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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